# Vivaldi "Gloria" in D **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639 "2006-12-03T00:28:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/1 "2006-12-03T00:28:30Z")
Are classical Dopers familiar with this piece? Our church choir (St. Catherine’s Episcopal, Temple Terrace, Florida) is singing this on Christmas Eve. I may even be singing the alto aria _Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris_ :eek: I just love this piece. I’m crazy for baroque/Classical period anyway, and this is just amazing! Unfortunately, when I tell people, all excited, that we’re doing the Vivaldi _Gloria_ nobody has a clue what I’m talking about. So, is this a really obscure thing, or am I just talking to people who are unsophisticated musically? ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/2 "2006-12-03T00:42:07Z")
Are you talking about [this](http://www.amazon.com/Vivaldi-Gloria-Magnificat-William-Stone/dp/B000003CVK/sr=1-1/qid=1165106402/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-3386713-1369704?ie=UTF8&s=music) one? If so, I know the first movement (the “Gloria in Excelsis”) very well, and love it. – it shows up pretty often in “Best of Baroque” collections. The rest I’m not familiar with. ---
**Author:** ![PerditaX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@PerditaX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PerditaX)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/3 "2006-12-03T00:53:39Z")
Yep, that’s the one! Apparently, the last movement _Cum Sancto Spiritu_ is performed separately as well. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/4 "2006-12-03T00:58:31Z")
I love Vivaldi’s music. Can’t say I’m too knowledgeable about it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/5 "2006-12-03T01:08:15Z")
I’ve sung it. I think I heard it sung when I was in about 9th grade (by the high school choir), and sang it two years later with a different high school choir. We were accompanied by the high school orchestra. I may have gone on to sing it a year or two later with a college choir as well–but it gets harder to remember at that point. At any rate-- I know the piece, and I would consider myself not exceptionally musically sophisticated, but perhaps slightly more sophisticated than many people. So I wouldn’t call it really obscure, and I bet some of the folk you talk to would think parts of it sounded vaguely familiar if they listened to it, but I may be odd. ---
**Author:** ![Eureka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/74df32/32.png) [@Eureka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eureka)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/6 "2006-12-03T01:10:37Z")
Unrelated, I think you have just changed the music in my head this evening to bits and pieces of Vivaldi’s Gloria. It could be worse-- at least this is more cheerful music than the last music I started hearing in my head as a result of some thread on this message board. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/7 "2006-12-03T01:42:42Z")
I’m familiar with it. Interestingly, the Catholic Channel on Sirius radio seems to play it at least once per day. I’d attend Mass at a church performing the piece. Now, if I could get Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the same night! ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2006, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/8 "2006-12-03T22:20:43Z")
I know it well. When I was a kid, my family had an LP with it. I sang it once in a college chorus. Good luck on the solo! ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/9 "2006-12-05T13:17:54Z")
Lucky you! My church choir performed this a few years ago, and I loved it. I just went to find the CD we made of our performance, and I’m surprised by how many CD’s I have where I am a performer! If I were organized they could have their own shelf, but since I’m not, I can’t find that CD. Oh well, I’ll just have to hum it in my head the rest of the day! Maybe it’s in the car… ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/10 "2006-12-05T13:49:11Z")
Back when I had a halfway-decent singing voice and was musically active, I performed the Vivaldi Gloria what…how many times? It was a annual staple in high school. We performed it twice in college. My community chorus performed it twice. It was also a semi-staple in the church choir repetoire. It’s one of 2 pieces (the other being the alto portion of the Hallelujah Chorus and assorted other “Messiah” pieces) I can still sing without looking at any sheet music. Not the whole thing, mind you – I’m talking about the alto portion in the “Gloria”, the “Cum Sancto Spiritu”, and, to a lesser extent, the “Credo”. I last sang in a group about 10 years ago. The music remains embedded in my brain. Anne Sexton wasn’t kidding when she wrote that “the music remembers more than I”. Sorry about the slight hijack – the Vivaldi “Gloria” is one of my all-time favorites 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tracy\_Lord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@Tracy\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tracy_Lord)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/11 "2006-12-05T14:26:46Z")
I’ve sung the “Domine Deus” solo many a time with my church group in Christmas season! In my experience, most musical people know of it – it’s a great piece that’s done fairly frequently. It’s probably not as familiar/hummable to the layman as something like “The Barber of Seville”, but I can’t think of anyone I know musically who wouldn’t know “Gloria”. (And now it’s stuck in my head too…I see right through your nefarious plan. :P) ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/12 "2006-12-05T14:51:26Z")
It’s super famous. It’s nowhere near as famous among non-music lovers as _The Four Seasons_, but it’s pretty much his only other piece that people tend to know. If you really want to go deep, you can start making references to Vivaldi’s _other_ Gloria to your choir friends at rehearsal. 🙂 (he did write another one - it just hardly ever gets done) ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/13 "2006-12-05T16:03:49Z")
[QUOTE=Figaro] If you really want to go deep, you can start making references to Vivaldi’s _other_ Gloria to your choir friends at rehearsal. 🙂 (he did write another one - it just hardly ever gets done) [/QUOTE] Is that the one where he shouts out “G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria”? ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/14 "2006-12-05T16:33:12Z")
_Beatus Vir_ and _Dixit Dominus_ are favourites of mine. ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2006, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vivaldi-gloria-in-d/382639/15 "2006-12-05T16:59:00Z")
[QUOTE=Thudlow Boink] Is that the one where he shouts out “G-L-O-R-I-A Gloria”? [/QUOTE] Sometimes called the “Red Rocks Gloria…”? 🆒